From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o6OL6dUp022699 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:06:39 -0500 Received: from mail.sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 0C8CB46F382 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandeen.net (64-131-60-146.usfamily.net [64.131.60.146]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id b4Wpumn5xSNSkIDw for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C4B5696.8060302@sandeen.net> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:09:42 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: filesystem shrinks after using xfs_repair References: In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Eli Morris Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Eli Morris wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got this problem where if I run xfs_repair, my filesystem > shrinks by 11 TB, from a volume size of 62 TB to 51 TB. I can grow > the filesystem again with xfs_growfs, but then rerunning xfs_repair > shrinks it back down again. The first time this happened was a few > days ago and running xfs_repair took about 7 TB of data with it. That > is, out of the 11 TB of disk space that vanished, 7 TB had data on > it, and 4 TB was empty space. XFS is running on top of an LVM volume. > It's on an Intel/Linux system running Centos 5 (2.6.18-128.1.14.el5). Running 2.6.18-138.el5 and beyond will have a much more uptodate xfs, just FWIW. -Eric > Does anyone have an idea on what would cause such a thing and what I > might try to keep it from continuing to happen. I could just never > run xfs_repair again, but that doesn't seem like a good thing to > count on. Major bonus points if anyone has any ideas on how to get my > 7 TB of data back also. It must be there somewhere and it would be > very bad to lose. > > thanks for any help and ideas. I'm just stumped right now. > > Eli _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list > xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs